On the Street in Turgeau’s Croix Deprez

People often say that one of the best ways to get to know a place is to sit out in a public place and watch people going about their business. There isn’t anything particularly interesting going on in this video, but I thought I’d share the scene from a street near one of our work sites in Turgeau, a neighborhood southeast of downtown Port-au-Prince.

Taken with a Flip Camera:

Street Scene in Croix Deprez, Turgeau, Port-au-Prince from Paul G on Vimeo.

From Open Street Maps, which has (incredibly) mapped most of Port-au-Prince:

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Also – thank you to those of you who told me that something funky was happening with my site on Tuesday and Wednesday. Apparently some malicious code made its way into one of the pages. Sorry about that – I’ve made changes and hopefully the site won’t cause problems from now on.

From Turgeau in Haiti: An Early Morning, Food Distribution, and Kids

Early this morning we waited to prep a bunch of dump trucks for duty at our sites:

Down a steep mountain road from one of our sites the UN was distributing food. The Marines were out in full force though it looked like they were totally bored. I talked to a couple and they were curious about other relief efforts. Haitians collected bags of rice and headed back up the hill:

Kids here are a bright spot. While so many are orphaned or homeless, going without food or medicine — or worse — they’re still kids. On the street today a few were hanging out and joking around in a “tap-tap” bus (that could also go in quotes). They kept yelling to me, “Mon blanc!”

The beauty of digital cameras:

From Carrefour the other day, my friend taking a minute to show off some rusty juggling skills: